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which you have evinced in their pursuits, and for the steady maintenance which you 

 have invariably afforded to their interests as a constituted body. 



I am, Honorable Sir, 



Your most obedient servant, 



H. TORRENS. 



To H. Tor r ens, Esq. Vice President and Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



Sir, — I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th instant, commu- 

 nicating to me the thanks of the Society, for the support and assistance which I 

 afforded them during the time I had the honor to hold the office of President, and 

 requesting, that I would allow my Portrait to be painted for the purpose of being 

 placed in the Meeting Room of the Society, together with those of my predecessors 

 in the chair. 



I beg you will express to the Society how sensible I am of the honor they have 

 done me, and how gratified 1 feel, that the little I have been able to do for the 

 maintenance of their interests, should be considered deserving of so flattering an 

 acknowledgment. With every wish for the continued success of their labours. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient servant, 



Calcutta, 17th September, 1844. W. W. Bird. 



The Society then proceeded to the election of a President, when the 

 Honourable Sir Henry Hardinge being proposed from the chair, and 

 seconded by Lieut. Col. Forbes, was unanimously elected. It was arrang- 

 ed, on the suggestion of Col. Forbes, that the Secretary should be requested 

 to ascertain from the Private Secretary, when it might be convenient for 

 the Honourable the Governor General to receive a deputation from the 

 Society of such members as might please to form it; and that Sir Henry 

 Seton, as the Vice-President in the chair this evening, be requested to con- 

 duct the deputation. 



Read the following report and letters submitted to the Society by the 



Sub-Committee for publishing Sir A. Burnes' drawings : — 



The Committee for publishing Sir A. Burnes' Drawings, with reference to their first report 

 to the Society in July 1843, have now the honour to present afartfier report as follows: — 



The Committee having, as authorized, added to their numbers the undermention- 

 ed members : — 



Rev. J. Haeberlin, 



S. G. T. Heatly, Esq. 



And being now composed of the following members ; viz. 



H. Torrens, Esq., Charles Huffhagle, Esq., Rev, J. Haeberlin, S. G. T. Heatly, 

 Esq., and Henry Piddington Esq., Secretary to the Committee. 



